UFC Announcer Bruce Buffer Knocked Out at WSOP $50k High Roller Final Table

It isn’t time for Bruce Buffer to win a World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. However the legendary UFC ring announcer wasn’t far off from successful a bracelet on Sunday.

Coming into the third and remaining day of Occasion #39: $50,000 Excessive Curler No-Restrict Maintain’em (8-Handed), the blended martial arts fanatic had the smallest stack out of 13 remaining gamers.

Previous to the beginning of Day 3, Buffer picked up the mic and introduced shuffle up and cope with his trademark “it is time” introduction. Even Martin Kabrhel take part on the festivities.

Buffer Doubles Proper Off the Bat

Buffer entered the ultimate day in a tough place — final in chips in opposition to a few of the greatest poker execs on the earth. However he’d discover an instantaneous double up with pocket kings in opposition to the ace-rag Jonathan Jaffe held. Doing so gave the UFC announcer some respiratory room, and allowed him to ladder up.

5 gamers, together with Artur Martirosian (twelfth for $106,810) and Kabrhel (tenth for $131,876), would go on to bust earlier than Buffer would run into nearly the precise scenario in opposition to Jaffe, besides the roles have been reversed.

Buffer was all in with A♥Okay♥ in opposition to Jaffe’s Okay♠Okay♦ and wanted some assist from the board to remain alive. No enchancment would come from the ten♦9♣6♦8♥2♣ board, resulting in an eighth place elimination for $212,423.

For Buffer, it was his first World Sequence of Poker remaining desk look, and his first WSOP money since 2013. Poker is only a pastime for the legendary announcer, however he now has over $550,000 in stay event cashes, in response to The Hendon Mob, and he is appeared just a few occasions on Hustler On line casino Stay.

On the time of publishing, on dinner break, the $50k Excessive Curler, which had 177 entrants, was down to only six gamers. Likelihood Kornuth, Viktor Blom, and Jaffe have been amongst these nonetheless standing. The winner, to be topped earlier than the Sunday’s session concludes, will take house $2,026,506.

Buffer, who has a longstanding relationship with PokerStars, will seem on an upcoming episode of PokerNews’ Life Exterior Poker podcast.

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